Section: The Washington Times (USA)
Obama to meet with Putin at U.N General Assembly, discuss Ukraine and Syria
President Obama will meet one-on-one with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the White House has confirmed. It’s not clear exactly when the two leaders will meet, but Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the encounter would happen Monday when Mr. Putin … …read more...
Grenade in Ukraine explodes, killing one officer; 100 injured in clashes
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A grenade exploded outside Ukraine’s parliament during a nationalist protest against a vote to give greater powers to separatist regions in the east, killing one police officer, the interior ministry said. About 100 other officers were injured in the clashes, 10 of them seriously. Some of … …read more...
Ukraine vows to increase troops to fend off rebel attacks
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president vowed to increase troop numbers to fend off attacks by Russia-backed separatist rebels and warned his countrymen that there is still the threat of a “large-scale invasion,” in an impassioned speech to mark Independence Day on Monday. Speaking during a military parade, President Petro...
Russia-Ukraine clashes spark fears Vladimir Putin may greenlight offensive
With the Obama administration’s attention focused on crises elsewhere, the 6-month-old fragile cease-fire between the Ukrainian government and pro-Russia separatists has deteriorated steadily in recent weeks, reigniting fears that Russian President Vladimir Putin is poised to greenlight a fresh offensive to seize more territory across the...
Ukraine posts video of captured Russian rebel; he asks Vladimir Putin for help
Ukraine’s state security agency has released a video purporting to show a captured Russian army officer appealing to President Vladimir Putin for help securing his release. The soldier in the video was identified by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) as Maj. Vladimir Starkov who was captured last month in eastern … …read more...
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17: Possible Russian missile parts found at crash site
Fragments of a suspected Russian missile system have been found at the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash site in Ukraine, Dutch investigators said Tuesday. The parts are thought to be from a Buk surface-to-air system — the type of system investigators suspect was used to down the plane, CNN …read more Source: The Washington...
Russia demanding ownership of the North Pole
Russia, while still digesting its meal of Crimea, is taking another bite at expanding its sovereignty by laying claim Tuesday to the North Pole and a large area of the Arctic Ocean — an area involving oil and gas drilling as well as fishing. The Russian Foreign Ministry submitted its … …read more Source: The Washington...
Scholars drawn to conflict zones stoke college safety debate
BOSTON (AP) – Some U.S. colleges with overseas-study programs won’t touch Ukraine. Tufts University, on the other hand, is drawn to the turmoil in the former Soviet republic, which the U.S. State Department deemed dangerous for travel. The potential to help activists and scholars, Tufts professor Peter Levine says, outweighs …...
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17: Russian missile like caused crash, investigators find
A Dutch-led investigation into last year’s downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 concluded that the plane was brought down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian surface-to-air missile fired by rebels loyal to Moscow, according to people familiar with the probe. Nearly one year after the Boeing 777 crashed near the … …read more...
Joint Chiefs nominee: Russia is top security threat to US
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday that Russia poses the greatest threat to U.S. national security and it would be a reasonable military decision to supply lethal arms to Ukrainians fighting against rebels backed by Moscow. The White House quickly … …read more...
